Money From Blogging

During initial stages of starting blogging, I found many ideas and thought those are niches which I should start immediately. With much enthusiasm and optimism, I booked domains one after another for each of my topics, installed WordPress, Googled a lot for ‘Best WordPress Theme’ and installed many plugins. Also, I installed Google Analytics, Email Subscription option, Subscriber count etc.

After that I started writing few posts for all the blogs. Some time even two or three posts. But soon enough, ideas for new articles started o dry up and gap between posting new articles have gone up. Checking Google Analytics daily for visitors, search keywords did not exactly generate many optimism or enthusiasm. Within two months or so, 90% of those ‘niche blogs’ which I thought would grow big were almost orphaned. I have started finding many reasons for not being able to write new, good article in those topics. I have even stopped feeling bad that I wasted some money, considerable amount of time in searching for Theme, plugin etc. for those blogs.

After four months or so, I was left with only 3 blogs which were getting updating once in a month. Rest were all orphaned and I could not gather enough enthusiasm or motivation to start them again. Wastage of money, time and optimism!

I think, many blogger must have experienced the same during their initial period of blogging. Here are the lessons I learned from my misadventure :-

1. Do not rush things. Idea on two or three articles about one topic ( niche or other wise) is not a reason to book a domain related to the topic and start a new blog. Note down the idea on the article, store it and give some time to sink in before jump start.

2. Getting visitor, optimizing for search engines, all need hard work, patience. Never to forget that, Rome was not built in a day. If we can not think of putting up at least 100 article a year ( which makes minimum 6 articles a month, once a week), then I should not expect visitor as well as any earning from blog.

3. Blogging has lot of potentials and is very vast. One needs lot of time to explore it. If one does not have enough time, one should only consider blogging as leisure, hobby. Nothing else.

That is the story of my initial days of blogging, how was yours ?